Stairwell

This post was originally published on DIY Network’s blog Made + Remade in July 2012. If you’ve been looking to switch up the paint colors in your home, the summer months are a good time to take on the challenge. […]

I've written before about the state of our oak floors. They're squeak-tastic but we love them anyways. We've done a lot of work over the last year to improve them, spending many days researching for and …

The honest to gosh-darn-goodie truth about this project? I refinished the hardwood floors shortly after moving in, and in doing a thorough job at the time, I removed a threshold that sat beneath the bifold …

As something that's been in development since I introduced the topic two weeks ago, I'm happy to finally have checked repairing the attic stairwell off my list.
The situation happening up there wasn't dire. Crumbling plaster …

I've briefed you on this situation before. On any given day, the possibility of the linen closet explosion knocking you down the stairs was 8-in-10. The contents within were crammed like a clown car, and there …

True story: That louvered bifold door at the top of my stairs? It's a phony-bologna. It's never been really installed to fold out on a track, instead, it's wedged and forced, totally locked and loaded in …

I rocked through some seriously satisfying projects around the house in the last few weeks.
Some were fixes to new items, most were things that I should have taken care of years ago. I've never claimed …

I finished up a short list of small projects this month - ones that wouldn't actually prompt an independent post, but definitely make me want to pat myself on the back. After all, when you're doing projects …

Not terribly long after I launched Merrypad, I posted about my then-current paint palette.
That graphic looked something like this:
But in the last year, likely because I was challenging myself with blog-related projects and daring myself …